Writing for Dark Times : A Literary History of Human Rights.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Bakara, Hadji.

Language:

English

Physical Description:

1 online resource (371 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2026.

Summary:

A history of human rights that places writers and their ideas at its center.At Amnesty International's headquarters in London hangs a large copy of Seamus Heaney's "From the Republic of Conscience," a poem that touches on neither imprisonment nor torture but instead suggests that acts of literary creation are themselves a form of human rights.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

List of Figures

INTRODUCTION On Writing and Human Rights History

Part One THE REFUGEE

CHAPTER ONE Stateless Writing

CHAPTER TWO The Problem of the Refugee Writer

Part Two THE LEGISLATOR

CHAPTER THREE Poetry in the Shadow of Human Rights

Part Three THE PRISONER

CHAPTER FOUR The Writer's Freedom

CHAPTER FIVE The Prisoner's Pressure

Part Four THE WITNESS

CHAPTER SIX Suffering and the Fate of Utopia

CONCLUSION The Writer's Imagination and the Imagination of the State

Acknowledgments

Notes

Index

Notes:

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ISBN:

0-226-84783-7

OCLC:

1586297258